{"id":42376,"date":"2024-08-19T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42376"},"modified":"2024-08-19T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:03:20","slug":"oops-its-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/08\/19\/oops-its-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops: It&#8217;s Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh-my-gosh-it&#8217;s-Monday-and-I-don&#8217;t-have-a-post-up-already &#8212; woe (and whoa!) is me and very many (a million? a myriad?) mea culpas!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-41876\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Notebook_A-History-of-Thinking-On-Paper-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Notebook_A-History-of-Thinking-On-Paper-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Notebook_A-History-of-Thinking-On-Paper-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Notebook_A-History-of-Thinking-On-Paper.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/>[Takes deep breath, thinks&#8230;] Well, I had intended to bring you another review, this time of <em>The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/roland-allen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland Allen<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve recently finished and totally loved &#8212; that&#8217;s the short version.\u00a0 A longer version will follow, this I promise.<\/p>\n<p>[Takes another breath, thinks some more&#8230;] But the reason you behold me, sandbagged by Monday morning and with no post ready to go, bright and early, is because I&#8217;ve had my nose to the authorial grindstone, writing, writing, to get a section of the Great Wall Of Night #4 Revision (hereafter, if I ever type it again, GWoN4R &#8211;which could almost be Gondor, but in experiential terms is probably far closer to Grond, Hammer of the Underworld) done and dusted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42379\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42379\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-hammer-of-the-underworld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-hammer-of-the-underworld.jpg 269w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-hammer-of-the-underworld-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grond at the Gates of Minas Tirith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The writing-writing is a segue piece between sections which has required writing some completely new material (quelle horreur &#8212; and believe me, dear readers, I kid you not about the horror of being obliged to write new at this juncture) and it&#8217;s taken a bit of thinking and long hours to get it done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42378\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42378\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42378\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-1.jpg 265w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Grond-1-150x82.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All very Grond &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At this point it&#8217;s about 90% there, which is why I propose posting no more here and getting back to it. In the meantime, if you&#8217;re looking for something new oot thar in Blogland, <a href=\"http:\/\/akwilder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kim Falconer<\/a> has a new post up on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/choose-your-weapon-unarmed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choose Your Weapon: The Unarmed<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_42382\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42382\" class=\"wp-image-42382 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aikido_Unarmed-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aikido_Unarmed-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aikido_Unarmed-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aikido_Unarmed.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aikido: unarmed combat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You might also like to check out an older Kim post, which is featuring in From the Backlist:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/from-backlist-interview-with-witch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview With A Witch<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42380\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kreshkali_tarotspread-300x177.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kreshkali_tarotspread-300x177.gif 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kreshkali_tarotspread-150x89.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or if you&#8217;re feeling epic, have a browse through the <strong>Epic Fantasy category<\/strong> right here &#8212; there is a very respectable backlist of epic and <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Of Night<\/a> material right there, much of which may well repay a second look (imho, of course, with full admission to being a tad biased \ud83d\ude09 ) And although not &#8216;strictly&#8217; 100% epic, when it comes to fantasy &#8212; yeah, for sure, all the way down! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/epicfantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Epic Fantasy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41024 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-300x241.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-150x120.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1.jpeg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay well and have a good week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh-my-gosh-it&#8217;s-Monday-and-I-don&#8217;t-have-a-post-up-already &#8212; woe (and whoa!) is me and very many (a million? a myriad?) mea culpas! [Takes deep breath, thinks&#8230;] Well, I had intended to bring you another review, this time of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen, which I&#8217;ve recently finished and totally loved &#8212; that&#8217;s the short version.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42376"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42386,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions\/42386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}